Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

{Did not one God make them?} But a remnant of [the] spirit is his. And what does the one [God] desire? An offspring of God. {You must be attentive to} your spirit, and you must not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

New American Standard Bible

But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.

King James Version

And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Holman Bible

Didn’t the one God make us with a remnant of His life-breath? And what does the One seek? A godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously against the wife of your youth.

International Standard Version

Did he not make them one? And the vestige of the spirit remains in him. And why did he make them one? He was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and don't be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

A Conservative Version

And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

American Standard Version

And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Amplified

But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.

Bible in Basic English

... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

Darby Translation

And did not one make them? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth,

Julia Smith Translation

And did he not make one? And the remainder of the spirit to him. And why one? Seeking a seed of God. And ye matched in your spirit, and he shall not deal faithlessly against the wife of thy youth.

King James 2000

And did not he make them one? Yet had he the remnant of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Modern King James verseion

And did He not make you one? Yet the vestige of the Spirit is in him. And what of the one? He was seeking a godly seed. Then guard your spirit, and do not act treacherously with the wife of your youth.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

So did not the one, and yet had he an excellent spirit. What did then the one? He sought the seed promised of God. Therefore look well to your spirit, and let no man despise the wife of his youth.

NET Bible

No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.

New Heart English Bible

Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

The Emphasized Bible

Now was it not, One, who made you who had, the residue of the spirit? What, then, of that One? He was seeking a godly seed. Therefore should ye take heed to your spirit, and, with the wife of thy youth, do not thou deal treacherously.

Webster

And did he not make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

World English Bible

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Youngs Literal Translation

And He did not make one only, And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And did not he make

Usage: 0

one
אחד 
'echad 
Usage: 432

Yet had he the residue
שׁאר 
Sh@'ar 
Usage: 26

of the spirit
רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

אחד 
'echad 
Usage: 432

a godly
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

זרע 
Zera` 
Usage: 229

שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

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Context Readings

Yahweh Hates Faithlessness

14 But you ask, "{For what reason}?" Because Yahweh stands as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have been unfaithful, even though she [is] your marriage partner and {your wife by covenant}. 15 {Did not one God make them?} But a remnant of [the] spirit is his. And what does the one [God] desire? An offspring of God. {You must be attentive to} your spirit, and you must not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth. 16 "For hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and he [who] covers his clothing [with] violence," says Yahweh of hosts. "{You must be attentive to} your spirit and you must not be unfaithful."


Cross References

Matthew 19:4-6

And he answered [and] said, "Have you not read that the one who created [them] from the beginning made them male and female

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother, since otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Genesis 1:27

So God created humankind in his image, in the likeness of God he created him, male and female he created them.

Genesis 2:7

when Yahweh God formed the man [of] dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Genesis 6:2

Then the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they [were] beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose.

Genesis 2:20-24

And the man {gave names} to every domesticated animal and to the birds of heaven and to all the wild animals. But for [the] man there was not found a helper {as his counterpart}.

Genesis 24:3-7

that I may make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose midst I am dwelling,

Genesis 24:44

let her say to me, "Drink; I will also draw water for your camels," she [is] the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for the son of my master.'

Genesis 26:34-35

And [when] Esau was forty years old he took as wife Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from Hittite women like these, from the {native women}, {what am I living for}?"

Genesis 28:2-4

Arise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take for yourself a wife from there, from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

Deuteronomy 7:4

For their sons and daughters will cause your son to turn away {from following me}, and [so] they will serve other gods, and {the anger of Yahweh would be kindled} against you, and he would quickly destroy you.

Ezra 9:4

Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel because of the sin of the returned exiles were gathered around me and I sat appalled until the evening offering.

Nehemiah 13:24

Half of their children spoke Ashdodite and could not speak Judean, but [only] the tongues of other nations.

Job 27:3

For {as long as} my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nose,

Proverbs 4:23

With all vigilance, keep your heart, for from it [comes] the source of life.

Proverbs 6:25

Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes.

Proverbs 7:25

May your heart not turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her path.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I planted you [as] a choice vine, all of it a seed of trustworthiness. How then have you altered before me [into something that is] degenerate, the foreign vine?

Hosea 1:10

The number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea that cannot be measured or counted; and in the place where it is said to them, "You are not my people," it will be said to them, "Children of [the] living God."

Malachi 2:14

But you ask, "{For what reason}?" Because Yahweh stands as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have been unfaithful, even though she [is] your marriage partner and {your wife by covenant}.

Matthew 5:28-29

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech.

Mark 10:6-8

But from the beginning of creation 'he made them male and female.

John 20:22

And [when he] had said this, he breathed on [them] and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

Acts 3:25

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed.'

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband.

2 Corinthians 6:18

and I will be a father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me," says the all-powerful Lord.

Ephesians 6:4

And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

1 Timothy 3:4-5

managing his own household well, having children in submission with all dignity

1 Timothy 3:11-12

The wives likewise [must be] dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in all [things].

Titus 1:6

If anyone is blameless, [the] husband of one wife, having faithful children, not {accused of dissipation} or rebellious.

James 1:14-15

But each one is tempted [when he] is dragged away and enticed by his own desires.

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